Hydrological Sciences

How has ChatGPT changed the way you teach hydrology?

Bettina Schaefli June 14, 2023

Generated with beta.dreamstudio.ai, with the prompt: “a class of students in a lecture hall, sketch”, changed into black and white

Have you ever used ChatGPT to teach hydrology? If so, when did you start? I opened my account on openai.com in November 2022, out of curiosity, to test GPT-3 (Generative Pretrained Transformer generation 3). This was shortly before ChatGPT was launched (30 November 2022). Now, I even have a paid account to speed up the preparation of non-scientific texts, e.g. teaching materials on the use of Exce ...[Read More]

International initiatives to solve the challenges to trace sediment and contaminant in river systems

Olivier Evrard and Sabine Kraushaar May 23, 2023

Tracing Day Participants 2022 in Vienna.

Soil and water resources that are essential to human and aquatic life are increasingly threatened by human activities and the impacts of land use and climate change. Sediments play hereby a key role, particularly fine sediments with sediment-associated pollutants, which can lead to a substantial degradation of water body quality, such as in rivers and reservoirs. Sediment tracing as a first step t ...[Read More]

Wrapping up EGU23: A Hydrologist’s Look Back

Christina Anna Orieschnig and Bettina Schaefli May 3, 2023

Summarising such a week is almost an impossible task. First, it is worth highlighting that, on-site, we were back to a format with oral presentations, PICOs, and posters. Virtual participants could join the oral sessions and the PICO pitches via Zoom. Virtual boards were also available for the online poster sessions and PICOs. The format of 10-min oral presentations (questions included) was a chal ...[Read More]

Urban streams can provide water sources for climate change mitigation

Helene Mueller April 26, 2023

Methodical approach for the suitability pre-assessment for decoupling in-sewer captured streams to support urban blue-green climate adaptation measures within ProBACH. Picture: Prenner et al. (2022)

With advancing climate change, mitigation measures are necessary to fight urban heat islands. Reactivating urban streams as blue-green infrastructures can contribute to this mitigation, and serve as an invaluable water resource. Urban streams – banned to the underground In urban areas, hydrological conditions have been modified, impacted or completely changed for centuries. Rivers and stre ...[Read More]